1964 GTO Buildup, Start to Finish

Barry Penfound of Penfound Design has been working on this '64 GTO for more than six years, but the results have proven to be worth the wait. HOT ROD showed the first stages of the build in 2006, but several other car projects at Penfound Design kept the GTO on the back burner. As of this summer, the car is complete and touring the nation's car shows via Pontiac power. See PenfoundDesign.com.

1 Arnie Beswick's '64 Supercharged Factory Experimental (Funny Car).
2 Lew Arrington's '65 Brutus Funny Car with a Mickey Thompson hemi-headed Pontiac.
3 Herb Adams' '64 Gray Ghost that ran the Trans-Am series in 1971. It was actually a Tempest, but we can live with ourselves putting it on the GTO list because it was way cool.
4 The '70 from Two-Lane Blacktop ("Performance and image, that's what it's all about.")
5 The Monkeemobile.

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